Financial Literacy Education: Edu-Regulating our Saving and Spending Habits
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (722 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3319550160 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 303 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Her research interests lie in the areas of financial services regulation, consumer protection, law and development, gender, and socio-legal studies. She has years of professional legal experience having worked as a lawyer in Lithuania, where she advised corporate clients across different fields of practice, including but not limited to: consumer credit, capital markets and securities law, cor
It challenges the mainstream representation of financial literacy education as a viable solution to consumer financial exclusion and poverty. Using the concepts of ‘edu-regulation’ and ‘financial knowledge democratisation’ to analyse the financial education project in the UK, the book exposes serious, and often ignored, limitations to using information and education as tools for consumer protection. From the Back Cover This book explores the issue of consumer financial education, responding to increased interest in, and calls to improve peoples’ financial literacy skills and abilities to understand and manage their money. . Instead, it argues that th
This book explores the issue of consumer financial education, responding to increased interest in, and calls to improve peoples’ financial literacy skills and abilities to understand and manage their money. It challenges the mainstream representation of financial literacy education as a viable solution to consumer financial exclusion and poverty. New conceptual frameworks introduced in the book offer academic audiences an innovative way of thinking about the project on financial literacy education. Finally, it reveals how these international and national calls for ev